Planning

All photography by the brilliant 5 West Studios Despite my current heathen ways, I grew up Catholic. Thus, I grew up with the grand tradition of Catholic weddings- the hour-long mass with the bit of wedding stuff at the end. As…

Remember 2006? I do. It was the year everyone I knew got a new iMac or laptop (for “college”), fully loaded with Photo Booth. Every graduation party held that summer featured at least an hour of posing in front of…

It’s an odd thing, being this close to the wedding. I simultaneously would like to stop time AND fast forward two or three weeks into the future. Somehow, it is still next to impossible to imagine this wedding ACTUALLY happening-…

Not quite, but soon. Very soon. You have, perhaps, noticed that I usually don’t leave myself unbleeped, particularly in titles. But today, only the actual, full, F-word would suffice. One month! One. Month. How did that happen? Seriously- didn’t we…

It’s like a wedding-dress-version of the game where you guess what an object is based on an extreme close-up. I’ve basically turned into a psycho this week. It was as if when the clock struck “May,” my sanity flew out…

I’m starting to think those Duggar girls have it right when it comes to engagements. Well, not the whole “waiting to kiss until marriage,” or pretty much any of the other convictions they hold, but I’m starting to get jealous…

Honeymoon- “artist’s” rendition When I first saw, “Hire your honeymoon planner!” as an item on a wedding to-do checklist in some magazine, I laughed and rolled my eyes. Just another example of princess-bride-complex! We’ve gotten to the point that we can’t…

A little stressed bride rant: USPS, why are you trying to kill me?? As anyone who speaks to me for more than 10 minutes will find, I have a long and complicated relationship with the United States Postal Service. I bring it…

So we’ve officially invited people to this thing. We’ve told them the time and address and everything, so we’re going to have to be ready. Our invitations were quite the labor of love, and despite our best intentions, did end up…

The invitations have, for the most part, been mailed, so I guess we actually have to have this wedding. I’ll be doing a more in-depth post on our DIY suite later on, but for now, peruse these pics of my…